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Carver 560 Voyager

The published record on this model and what owners report, with the questions worth asking while a boat is still a listing. This page covers the model. Every boat still needs its own homework.

The published record

Fuel800 gal
Water200 gal

Source: Power & Motoryacht used-boat review. If a listing disagrees with these numbers, the listing may still be right. Settle the difference before it costs you.

Clears the gates on paper with inches of air-draft margin to verify. Capacities, clearance basis and the engine-support story are the pre-offer homework.

A 2004–2009 planing pilothouse motoryacht with three staterooms. The Loop questions cluster in three places: whether the published 19' clearance survives a tape measure, whether the listing's tankage math matches the published 800/200 totals, and what supporting the installed engines looks like on your route. Model fit and model risk only; condition is for a surveyor.

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How to read the tags on this page. FACTdocumented, with the source named CLAIMstated by one source, not yet confirmed QUESTIONopen, and settled by looking at the boat itself CONTEXTbackground on how this model is built or used Sources are linked where published.

The published numbers

FACT
Built 2004–2009: 59'8" LOA, 15'4" beam, 4'9" draft, 52,500 lb. Power & Motoryacht's used-boat review carries the factory figures. LOA runs well past the nominal 56. Slips and haul-outs price the 59'8". src: Power & Motoryacht used-boat review
FACT
Published capacity is 800 gal fuel and 200 gal water (totals). Those are the model's published TOTAL capacities, not per side. src: Power & Motoryacht used-boat review
QUESTION
Does this listing's tankage math double the totals? At least one current listing for this model shows 2 x 800 fuel and 2 x 200 water, double the published totals. Before any range math, get the tank count and capacities as documented for this hull. src: published totals vs. a current brokerage listing
Your move: Ask for tank count and per-tank capacity, in writing or from the manual aboard.

Air draft

CONTEXT
The 19' clearance figure needs a basis before it's a plan. Published clearance is 19'0", and what that includes (hardtop, mast, antennas) isn't stated. On a corridor with a 19'6" fixed limit that margin is inches. Height figures are stated often and confirmed rarely; this one decides a whole leg. src: Power & Motoryacht used-boat review (the figure)
Your move: Confirm what the published figure includes, then tape-measure this hull with everything up, and learn what actually comes down.

Reading the boat right

CONTEXT
It's a planing pilothouse, so range figures are speed-dependent math. Published performance is planing-speed performance. Any range number collapses or stretches with how you actually run her, so plan Loop legs on measured burn at your speeds, not the brochure's. src: Power & Motoryacht used-boat review (performance basis)
Your move: Get real fuel-burn numbers at displacement rpm during the sea trial.

How she sits and sounds

CLAIM
A predecessor-family owner reported light-feeling build and hard roll at anchor. One former Carver 53 Pilothouse owner (he calls it near-identical to the 57) reported interior rattles at idle and marked rolling at anchor, and moved to a trawler after a year. That's the PREDECESSOR pilothouse family, one owner. It's carried here as the line's reputation to test, not as a 560 finding. src: Trawler Forum (a former Carver 53 Pilothouse owner)
QUESTION
Idle her, and ask how she sits at anchor. On the sea-trial day: listen at idle for the rattle story, and ask the owner plainly how she behaves at anchor and in beam chop. If roll matters to you, stabilization is a criterion worth weighing.

Layout

CONTEXT
Two saloon configurations exist: skylounge or lower helm. Hulls differ: a forward skylounge or a true lower helm station. If running from inside matters to you, confirm which configuration this hull is before you travel to it. Three staterooms, all forward; the master uses the full 15'4" beam. src: Power & Motoryacht used-boat review

Engines

The engines research is part of the full profile inside the product. It covers factory options, tested performance and the engine-specific questions in our members' dossiers, and it travels with every dossier and survey brief built on this model.

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